The general, constructive positions expressed
above constitute the organisational platform of the revolutionary forces of
anarchism.

This platform, containing a definite tactical and
theoretical orientation, appears to be the minimum to which it is necessary and
urgent to rally all the militants of the organised anarchist movement.

Its task is to group around itself all the
healthy elements of the anarchist movement into one general organisation, active
and agitating on a permanent basis: the General Union of Anarchists. The forces
of all anarchist militants should be orientated towards the creation of this
organisation.

The fundamental principles of organisation of a
General Union of anarchists should be as follows:

1. Theoretical Unity:

Theory represents the force which directs the
activity of persons and organisations along a defined path towards a determined
goal. Naturally it should be common to all the persons and organisations
adhering to the General Union. All activity by the General Union, both overall
and in its details, should be in perfect concord with the theoretical principles
professed by the union.

2. Tactical Unity or the
Collective Method of Action:

In the same way the tactical methods employed by
separate members and groups within the Union should be unitary, that is, be in
rigorous concord both with each other and with the general theory and tactic of
the Union.

A common tactical line in the movement is of
decisive importance for the existence of the organisation and the whole
movement: it removes the disastrous effect of several tactics in opposition to
one another, it concentrates all the forces of the movement, gives them a common
direction leading to a fixed objective.

3. Collective Responsibility:

The practice of acting on one's personal
responsibility should be decisively condemned and rejected in the ranks of the
anarchist movement. The areas of revolutionary life, social and political, are
above all profoundly collective by nature. Social revolutionary activity in
these areas cannot be based on the personal responsibility of individual
militants.

The executive organ of the general anarchist
movement, the Anarchist Union, taking a firm line against the tactic of
irresponsible individualism, introduces in its ranks the principle of collective
responsibility: the entire Union will be responsible for the political and
revolutionary activity of each member; in the same way, each member will be
responsible for the political and revolutionary activity of the Union as a
whole.

4. Federalism:

Anarchism has always denied centralised
organisation, both in the area of the social life of the masses and in its
political action. The centralised system relies on the diminution of the
critical spirit, initiative and independence of each individual and on the blind
submission of the masses to the 'centre'. The natural and inevitable
consequences of this system are the enslavement and mechanisation of social life
and the life of the organisation.

Against centralism, anarchism has always
professed and defended the principle of federalism, which reconciles the
independence and initiative of individuals and the organisation with service to
the common cause.

In reconciling the idea of the independence and
high degree of rights of each individual with the service of social needs and
necessities, federalism opens the doors to every healthy manifestation of the
faculties of every individual.

But quite often, the federalist principle has
been deformed in anarchist ranks: it has too often been understood as the right,
above all, to manifest one's "ego", without obligation to account for
duties as regards the organisation.

This false interpretation disorganised our
movement in the past. It is time to put an end to it in a firm and irreversible
manner.

Federation signifies the free agreement of
individuals and organisations to work collectively towards common objectives.

However, such an agreement and the federal union
based on it, will only become reality, rather than fiction or illusion, on the
conditions sine qua non that all the participants in the agreement and the Union
fulfil most completely the duties undertaken, and conform to communal decisions.
In a social project, however vast the federalist basis on which it is built,
there can be no decisions without their execution. It is even less admissible in
an anarchist organisation, which exclusively takes on obligations with regard to
the workers and their social revolution. Consequently, the federalist type of
anarchist organisation, while recognising each member's rights to independence,
free opinion, individual liberty and initiative, requires each member to
undertake fixed organisation duties, and demands execution of communal
decisions.

On this condition alone will the federalist
principle find life, and the anarchist organisation function correctly, and
steer itself towards the defined objective.

The idea of the General Union of Anarchists poses
the problem of the co-ordination and concurrence of the activities of all the
forces of the anarchist movement.

Every organisation adhering to the Union
represents a vital cell of the common organism. Every cell should have its
secretariat, executing and guiding theoretically the political and technical
work of the organisation.

With a view to the co-ordination of the activity
of all the Union's adherent organisation, a special organ will be created: the
executive committee of the Union. The committee will be in charge of the
following functions: the execution of decisions taken by the Union with which it
is entrusted; the theoretical and organisational orientation of the activity of
isolated organisations consistent with the theoretical positions and the general
tactical line of the Union; the monitoring of the general state of the movement;
the maintenance of working and organisational links between all the
organisations in the Union; and with other organisations.

The rights, responsibilities and practical tasks
of the executive committee are fixed by the congress of the Union.

The General Union of Anarchists has a concrete
and determined goal. In the name of the success of the social revolution it must
above all attract and absorb the most revolutionary and strongly critical
elements among the workers and peasants.

Extolling the social revolution, and further,
being an anti-authoritarian organisation which aspires to the abolition of class
society, the General Union of Anarchists depends equally on the two fundamental
classes of society: the workers and the peasants. It lays equal stress on the
work of emancipating these two classes.

As regards the workers trade unions and
revolutionary organisations in the towns, the General Union of Anarchists will
have to devote all its efforts to becoming their pioneer and their theoretical
guide.

It adopts the same tasks with regard to the
exploited peasant masses. As bases playing the same role as the revolutionary
workers' trade unions, the Union strives to realise a network of revolutionary
peasant economic organisations, furthermore, a specific peasants' union, founded
on anti-authoritarian principles.

Born out of the mass of the labour people, the
General Union must take part in all the manifestations of their life, bringing
to them on every occasion the spirit of organisation, perseverance and
offensive. Only in this way can it fulfil its task, its theoretical and
historical mission in the social revolution of labour, and become the organised
vanguard of their emancipating process.